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Buff Support

Ant Reformed·3/28/2016, 8:01:14 PM·1 votes·851 views

I think one of the main things that would make the support role better would be to buff their income and itemization. There are a few things I can think of to make this happen. One is making a summoner spell that would only be useful to supports, just like smite is exclusively useful to junglers. The summoner would allow the support, and only the support to buy gold income items geared towards the support role. These items item 3069 item 3092 item 3401 item 2303 item 2302 item 2301 would get a considerably large income buff to what is offered currently. I would also suggest nerfing the stats on these a little bit, buffing their passives, and lowering their price a bit. The reason would be to deter other roles from abusing this. Another thing that would benefit support would be to give them their own update that would provide reworks, new items, item changes, and perhaps some other changes.

P.S I just thought of a summoner that would allow supports to get an extra item slot that could only contain an elixir, Riot would have to make some new ones for supports, but basically these elixirs would give supports temporary _**super buffs **_for sticky/dire situations. AP elixir, Tank elixir, Utility elixir.

2 Comments

Jamener3/28/2016, 8:16:55 PM1 votes

What would that summoner spell do? It can't be an exhaust because a solo laner could easily take it, win duels and reap the buffed passive gold benefits as well. You'd have to make a whole new summoner or rework an old one so it is completely defensive in nature and requires a teammate to use. Something like a damage reduction buff that only affects another teammate.

Magnum Mack3/28/2016, 8:30:38 PM1 votes

I don't see why they can't just give sighstone a gold generation perk. Every support worth mentioning gets sightstone. And other laners getting a sighstone isn't such a bad thing either. I always wondered why top laners don't get one too just to play more on the vision game. It gives HP and is fairly cheap for an item. Seeing as end game builds basically never get accomplished with the shorter game meta, it seems like it'd make sense.

The gold generation items you listed are already there for a reason. Maybe making an xp sightstone that boosts xp gains passively and still uses wards. I'd sacrifice 400 health for xp gains.

Your big issue is: how do you give something for supports that won't be abused by other laners? There are some specific items that only supports get. Relic Shield, Ancient Coin, SIghstone all are almost exclusively support items. I never really understood this. Add something like xp gains to support items and suddenly everyone gets Ancient coin first to try and snowball off of.

I still stand by my suggestion that Eyestone wards be given the range of Farsight Wards. If all I get is 3 wards total placed down and one vision ward then goddammit I might as well have some range on them to keep my idiot teammates from facechecking since they just won't do ward for themselves otherwise.